Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Transamerica might be accused of favoring a pedestrian viewpoint, for it is the man on the street who is most affected by the urban environment. We're betting that this man would rather have greater setback of buildings allowing more light and air to the street, would appreciate a public sculpture garden to retreat from sidewalk traffic, and might enjoy a terrace-level restaurant where he can look out at an historic area of the city...
...activities infinitely more lethal than football, Terry will become a student again, this time at Harvard. He has been awarded a Nieman fellowship, and will take a year's leave of absence from TIME to study the economic and political struggles of underdeveloped nations, as well as urban problems...
...black soldiers are yesterday's rioters, expecting increased racial conflict in Viet Nam and at home when they return. Elaborate training in guerrilla warfare has not been lost upon them, and many officers, black and white, believe that Viet Nam may prove a training ground for the black urban commando of the future. As in America, the pantheon of black heroes has changed. The N.A.A.C.P.'s Roy Wilkins is a "uniform tango"-military phonetics for U.T., or Uncle Tom-and Massachusetts Senator Edward Brooke is an "Oreo" cookie -black on the outside, white on the inside. "The N.A.A.C.P...
...administrator: Austin is credited with having helped to bring order to county finances, Gribbs cleaned up corruption in the county sheriff's office. Yet both remain unknown quantities. Neither Austin nor Gribbs has announced his plans for solving Detroit's problems-a disheartening array of urban ills, including crime, poverty, inadequate schools and lack of funds...
Guerrilla warfare has plagued the hinterlands of Latin America for more than a decade. But the Brazilian kidnapers who seized Ambassador Elbrick two weeks ago and held him captive for 77 hours represent a relatively recent, and rapidly spreading, phenomenon-organized urban guerrilla warfare. Kidnapings, bombings and bank robberies in the great cities of the continent seem to be overshadowing the tactics devised by Mao Tse-tung, Vo Nguyen Giap and Ernesto Che Guevara -all of whom hold that the proper arena for armed revolutionary struggle is the countryside. With the exception of Fidel Castro's Cuba, that kind...